In this article, we aim to present our point of view on how a sustainable balance was achieved in the exploitation of agricultural, livestock, forestry and mineral resources during the early and high Middle Ages. We link this achievement to an economy based on self-sufficiency, in which each plot of land was used to produce what was best suited to its characteristics. We will establish the theoretical framework based on the Environmental Turn and Spatial Turn and outline the basic principles that enabled the development of a markedly sustainable technical system for the sixth-eleventh centuries in a mountainous territory. To this end, we will use as an example the work carried out in a valley in the Lleida Pre-Pyrenees and present specific cartography on available resources and on the definition of Resource Catchment Areas.
During the fifteenth century, the Bahia de Cadiz became a hub of communication between two seas, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, and between two continents, Europe and Africa. It was a period of population growth, increased fishing techniques and, above all, increased commercial activity. All of this had an anthropogenic impact on the marsh and coastal ecosystems, which resulted in the creation and organisation of salt flats and tuna traps. This article analyses the use of the natural resources of these ecosystems from the perspective of sustainability and complementarity by the communities that lived and worked in the Bahia de C & aacute;diz during the fifteenth century.
The choice of Pe & ntilde;afiel as the site for the family mausoleum projected by Don Juan Manuel implied a break with paternal will that has hitherto not been properly addressed by historiography. In this paper, we address this decision, which we can trace back to before December 1318, the date on which Pope John XXII authorized the founding of a convent in the town, and which was prompted by the political conflicts in which Don Juan Manuel became involved during the early years of the minority of Alfonso XI. Specifically, we posit as a working hypothesis that the decision by Don Juan Manuel to found a convent as his own and his lineage's sepulcher emerged following a heated and serious conflict with the Master of the Order of Santiago, Don Diego Muniz, in which Don Juan Manuel became embroiled. The establishment of the convent-mausoleum materialized their political alliance with the Order of Preachers and assigned them the role of custodians and disseminators of their lineage memory.
This paper analyses the manner in which the Jewish character of the Passio Vincentii, Sabinae et Christetae was delineated, as well as its similarities with other Western European narratives in Late Antiquity. It draws comparisons with other late antique texts in which Jews appear, such as the Dialogi of Gregory the Great and the Passio Eulaliae Emeritensis. It also discusses the dating of the Passio, mainly in relation to its production context.
This article proposes an approach to the Castilian animal collective imaginary through the analysis of the categories and concepts utilised to refer to animals within the text of Partidas (1256-1265), redacted during the reign of Alfonso X (1252-1284): contexts in which they are used, genealogy of the concepts, implications or relations established between them. To this end, four perspectives in which animals are treated in the text have been developed: philosophical reflexion about the position of man in the Creation, the discourse of & laquo;natural war & raquo;, the animals as properties and the social implications of the relation with certain animals.
